Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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822. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of targets for Kerry for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and for each year out to 2030, in tabular form; if and when these targets have been revised over the lifetime of this Government; to provide an update with regard to any proposed revisions upward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1927/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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Kerry County Council's Housing Delivery Action Plan, which sets out the Council’s annual social housing targets to 2026, can be accessed at the following link: www.kerrycoco.ie/housing-delivery-programme/.

Last November the Government approved new national housing targets up to the year 2030. 303,000 homes will be delivered in the period from 2025 to 2030, equating to an annual average of 50,500 homes, building up to 60,000 in 2030. The revised targets were informed by research and modelling by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) on population projections and long-run housing demand, which was published during the summer.

The revised national housing targets will inform the revision to existing social housing targets in County Kerry. Work is ongoing in this regard.

Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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823. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of LIHAF applications received for Kerry since its inception; the number that were approved and not approved, respectively; the status of all approved applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1928/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The objective of the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is to provide public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical infrastructure blockages. The types of infrastructure being provided include roads, bridges, diversion of power-lines, drainage works as well as public amenities (parks).

In July 2016, the Department invited relevant infrastructure project proposals from local authorities, and received over 70 applications.

Ultimately 30 projects were approved for LIHAF grant funding in 2017. Kerry County Council did not submit any applications.

It should be noted that the LIHAF scheme closed in 2017 to new applications.